J. L. Austin (1962), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 166 pp. — the William James Lectures at Harvard, 1955 — https://lccn.loc.gov/63000359
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reachable (see the history note). Known here only by its standard description: Austin begins from performatives (“I name this ship…”), which are not true or false but happy or unhappy under felicity conditions, and ends by dissolving the performative/constative distinction into a general theory of the locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts every utterance performs.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.